Brendan Behan Quotes & Sayings
Enjoy the top 68 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Brendan Behan.
Famous Quotes By Brendan Behan
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you. — Brendan Behan
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves. — Brendan Behan
A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him. — Brendan Behan
I think weddings are sadder than funerals, because they remind you of your own wedding. You can't be reminded of your own funeral because it hasn't happened. But weddings always make me cry. — Brendan Behan
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. — Brendan Behan
I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer. — Brendan Behan
Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death. — Brendan Behan
God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against. — Brendan Behan
Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it. — Brendan Behan
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop. — Brendan Behan
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. — Brendan Behan
Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman? — Brendan Behan
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. — Brendan Behan
They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues ... — Brendan Behan
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in. — Brendan Behan
What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque. — Brendan Behan
The sun was in mind to come out but having a look at the weather it was in lost heart and went back again. — Brendan Behan
I ruined my health drinking to other people's. — Brendan Behan
New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment ... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat. — Brendan Behan
I'm a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark. — Brendan Behan
Most horror movies are certainly that. — Brendan Behan
A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles ... it takes your mind off the cost of living. — Brendan Behan
I am a daylight atheist. — Brendan Behan
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years. — Brendan Behan
There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman. — Brendan Behan
The only thing I envy in young people is their livers. — Brendan Behan
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody. — Brendan Behan
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides. — Brendan Behan
I saw a notice that said "Drink Canada Dry" and I've just started. — Brendan Behan
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time. — Brendan Behan
Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day. — Brendan Behan
I'm a drinker with a writing problem. — Brendan Behan
No man can discover his own talents. — Brendan Behan
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks. — Brendan Behan
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary. — Brendan Behan
Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself. — Brendan Behan
The terrorist is the one with the small bomb. — Brendan Behan
To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory. — Brendan Behan
The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream? — Brendan Behan
Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops. — Brendan Behan
The English and Americans dislike only some Irish
the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers
the ones that think. — Brendan Behan
A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day. — Brendan Behan
Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together. — Brendan Behan
I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life. — Brendan Behan
One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough. — Brendan Behan
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me. — Brendan Behan
All publicity is good, except an obituary notice. — Brendan Behan
I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse. — Brendan Behan
The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted. — Brendan Behan
When two men fight over a woman it's the fight they want, not the woman. — Brendan Behan
When I'm talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation. — Brendan Behan
In a society which really supported marriage the wife would be encouraged to go to the office and make love to her husband on the company's time and with its blessing. — Brendan Behan
I'm a drinker with writing problems. — Brendan Behan